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LOPE DE VEGA A FIRM FAVORITE AT GOFFS By Emma Berry Few stallions will make such a stellar start at stud as Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal), and the success of his first crop on the track this season has had positive repercussions for his foals on sale at Goffs this week, with four of...
Continuing the Aga Khan domination of the opening session, lot 1132, Shalamantika (Ire) (Nashwan), was knocked down to Adrian Nicoll of BBA Ireland for €200,000. In foal to former Australian champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Aus), who shuttles to the Aga Khan’s Normandy-based Haras de Bonneval from Paul Messara’s Arrowfield Stud, the 15-year-old mare is already the...
No 3-year-old has ever won the G1 Hong Kong Sprint, in fact, few have even tried. But Peniaphobia (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) will try to change that after he was able to overcome the 14 hole and a very wide passage to take this course-and-distance prep in the G2 Jockey Club Sprint. Winner of the 2013 Weatherbys...
Young Juddmonte stallion Bated Breath (GB) has found favour with plenty of people on the hunt for foals at Tattersalls and his son out of the Pivotal (GB) mare Frabjous (GB) (lot 357) created one of his early sales-ring highlights when being knocked down to Brendan Morrin of Pier House Stud for 65,000gns (US$107,823). Last...
JUDDMONTE JEWELS ON OFFER AT TATTS By Kelsey Riley While the bloodstock market has moved through a series of phases over the last decade, not least a recession and correction as a result of the global economic downturn, one constant has always been the presence of the Juddmonte Farms draft of mares and fillies off...
RECORD TURNOVER FOR ARQANA IN 2014 Arqana has posted increases in most areas annually since it was formed in 2006, and this year was another landmark one for France’s flagship sales company. Arqana’s 10 sales posted a record turnover of €119,945,600, with the 80.8% sold and average of €45,384 also records. Arqana’s yearling market was...
Officials at Magic Millions in conjunction with Racing Queensland have announced the creation of the Jeep Magic Millions Raceday, the country’s first-ever A$10-million program, to be held Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016. The meeting, which will rank among the world’s 10 richest, is part of a seven-year partnership which is intended to take the summer racing...
by T.D. Thornton The quiet of the current holiday break on the New York racing circuit was jarred on Friday afternoon by the news that a sharp increase in premiums that horsemen must pay to fund the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund could shut down racing and training at Aqueduct and Belmont Park as...
Steven Coburn and Perry Martin’s GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) was selected as the 2014 Vox Populi Award winner in an online poll with input from the Vox Populi Committee and Penny Chenery. Also known as the ‘Voice of the People’ Award for the horse that resonates most with the...
by Mike Kane Not quite half his lifetime ago, Jerry Bozzo sold his stake in a company and left that career behind. Never one to stay still, some 45 years later, Bozzo is rolling along at 94, breeding and training Thoroughbreds in South Florida. Most likely the oldest active trainer in the country, Bozzo won...
HRTV will once again provide live coverage of the 44th annual Eclipse Awards Saturday, Jan. 17, it was announced by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters yesterday. The coverage of the Eclipse Awards, to be held at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Fl,...
Tom Durkin, who retired as the long-time race commentator at the New York Racing Association last August, has joined West Point Thoroughbreds as an equity partner on several horses within the partnership, including the promising Phantom Phasr (Ghostzapper), who is scheduled to make her debut over the winter. “We are thrilled to welcome Tom to...